Duncan Barlow Moves On, Lion Sized Looks for New Bassist

Duncan Barlow (far left) and d.biddle. If you happen to run into Duncan Barlow around town this week, be sure to congratulate him on his new gig. Next Monday, the d.biddle frontman and Lion Sized bassist will be picking up stakes and heading to Jacksonville, Florida, where he’s accepted a…

U2 Live At Red Rocks Released on DVD

Photo: G.Wigler U2’s breakthrough June 1983 performance at Red Rocks, captured on the band’s Live at Red Rocks and Under a Blood Red Sky, is slated to be released on DVD on Tuesday, September 30. The disc will include five previously unreleased songs and a director’s commentary, all presented in…

Tip Sheet: Young Coyotes

Who: Young Coyotes Dossier: Zach Tipton formed Young Coyotes with Adam Halferty (the Axe That Chopped the Cherry Tree and the Chain Gang of 1974) after Tipton’s previous band, Moros Eros, who was signed to Victory Records, folded this past spring. Formerly based in Marietta, Georgia, Tipton reportedly moved to…

Tonight: Machine Gun Blues Final Show.

It’s almost quitin’ time. What are you doing tonight? If it doesn’t involve pounding beers at the Bluebird with your friends until you’re Otis-drunk and seeing the most badass rock show of the year, cancel your plans right now! Seriously. Tonight, the venerable rock and roll warlords known as Machine…

Scratch and Dent Sale: Forget Brilliant Shoot for Useful

Let’s be honest: Most records are painfully self-aware pieces of trash. They’re uninspired, navel-gazing, banal, cliche-ridden, ego-stroking buckets of awful. Yes, occasionally you run across a record that is utterly brilliant. But most sound mediocre-to-good-enough for a few days until our eye catches a shiny object across the room and…

Jakob Dylan Cancels Folks Fest Appearance

We just got word that Jakob Dylan canceled his Rocky Mountain Folks Fest appearance, but the good news is that John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats will be flying in for a rare solo set on Sunday, August 17. KT Tunstall, Missy Higgins, Stephen Kellogg, Amos Lee, Patty Griffin, Nanci…

Saving Grace: Yes’s Tormato

Regardless of taste or aspiration, great artists are bound to fail every now and again. And as they fail, we all sit back idly, wishing it wouldn’t have happened, but slightly elevated by the fact they did – “ah yes,” we think, “they are humans, too.” But great artists rarely…

Live Review: Abracastabya at Black Sheep, Colorado Springs

Abracastabya Wednesday, August 6, 2008 The Black Sheep, Colorado Springs Better Than: Melissa Bays leaving town without being sent off properly. Everyone who has been to the Black Sheep in at least the past year or so knows Melissa Bays — even if they don’t know her name. She was…

Live Review: Witchcraft, Dead Child, Kingdom of Magic at Marquis Theater

See a slideshow at westword.com/slideshow. Witchcraft, Dead Child, Kingdom Of Magic Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Marquis Theater Better than: Whatever passes for OzzFest these days. The cyclical nature of music has, by this point, become unsurprising. What was once edgy and rebellious eventually becomes comodified, then loses it’s luster and…

3OH!3

3OH!3 is a group you either love or loathe. Judging from the response the act has gotten both here and across the country, most listeners land comfortably in the former category. Stuffy literary types who blanch at the simplistic synth lines, rudimentary beats and admittedly crass lyrics are missing the…

Top Sellers: Twist & Shout

Beck’s back on top. Looks like our boy Beck has reclaimed the top spot this week on Twist & Shout’s top seller list, pushing UmConscious back to slots and outselling Coldplay and Sigur Rós, who are, ahem, holding steady weeks after releasing their latest discs…

Q&A With Git Some

Westword’s August 7 profile on Git Some touched on the band’s history and its new album, Cosmic Rock, but in this extended Q&A, Chuck French and bassist Neil Keener (both former members of Planes Mistaken for Stars), singer Luke Fairchild and drummer Andrew Lindstrom talk about wanting to release Cosmic…

Weezer Coming Back to Denver… Uh, We Think

Although we’ve yet to receive a press release confirming a date, we’re pretty sure Weezer is going to be coming to town on this leg of its tour. At least that’s what we can deduce from the video posted after the jump. Pulling a page from Tom Waits Glitter and…

DNC Dance Card Is Filling Up

With the Democratic National Convention quickly approaching, the dance card around town is quickly filling up with noteworthy performers. In addition to the other artists we’ve already reported, looks like noted firebrand Jello Biafra is going to be back in town on Saturday, August 23, for the Slim Cessna/Ghost Buffalo…

This Just In 8/7-8/13

Panic at the Disco hits Broomfield Event Center Oct. 17. It’s been an insanely busy week for concert announcements. We also just got word that Moby will in town for DNC and doing a DJ set at the Church on Wednesday, August 27. But in the meantime, here’s a sampling…